April 01, 2011

Cover Story

John Taylor was thrust into the interbank cash foreign exchange business by accident. He soon became an expert, and 40 years later is operating one of the largest forex-focused commodity trading advisors

If regulators sign off on Deutsche Börse’s takeover of NYSE.Euronext, Europe will have a megalithic futures exchange to rival the CME Group. The European Commission, however, isn’t likely to let that happen without extracting certain conditions

Editor's Note

"The greatest tragedy would be to accept the refrain that no one could have seen this coming and thus nothing could have been done. If we accept this notion, it will happen again…. It falls to us to make different choices if we want different results

While it may seem that court battles over Trading Technologies’ "static ladder" and related patents that once threatened to disrupt futures markets’ cost structure are old news, there are still cases being disputed

Trader Profiles

Michael Rulle is an emerging commodity trading advisor (CTA) with 30 years of experience in the trading business, most recently serving as president of a CTA with as much as $8 billion under management